America

Recent COVID-19 deaths and “sadopopulism”

Recent COVID-19 deaths From the New York Times article, U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Surpasses 700,000 Despite Wide Availability of Vaccines: The…

4 years ago

Demonyms and Goober Grabbers

In a Zoom conversation earlier today, one of us asked for the English word for “noun that refers to people…

4 years ago

An idea the US might want to adopt

...but as long as there’s this prevailing notion of “We don’t want the lazy or the wrong kind of people…

4 years ago

Sign of the day

Some background info: Why Is the Intellectual Dark Web Suddenly Hyping an Unproven COVID Treatment? (Vice, June 24, 2021) The…

4 years ago

I got my “JohnnyCare” Instant Care Kit!

I’m one of the 5,000 lucky Floridians who was able to sign up for JohnnyCare, the fake health care sharing…

4 years ago

Happy Independence Day, superhero-style!

Although the concept of the superhero is as old as the Epic of Gilgamesh, superheroes as we know them today are…

4 years ago

How racist do you have to be to vote against a day off?

Here’s the Rachel Maddow piece that the graphic above comes from:

4 years ago